26-year-old Barry Allen first tangles with 26-year-old Leonard Snart, who steals a miniature cyclotron and completes his first cold gun and become Captain Cold. His ally Clyde Mardon dies in an accident caused by his brother 23-year-old Mark Mardon, who becomes Weather Wizard. ​32-year-old Sam Scudder uses his mastery of mirrors to escape prison & become the Mirror Master.

46-year-old Cladina Drake, realizing that 19-year-old Dinah Lance is going to become Black Canary no matter what, gives her daughter her blessing.

26-year-old Buddy Blank is re-engineered via a techno-organic virus by the brother eye satellite for the Global Police Agency, a group of rogue alien pacifist fundamentalists, as their "peace weapon" OMAC. When he reverts back to his normal form he has no memory of his time as OMAC.

8-year-old Vril Dox is targeted by the intergalactic bounty-hunter 24-year-old Lobo. He outsmarts him, and Lobo becomes a part-time member of L.E.G.I.O.N.

7-year-old Eve Eden is brought back to Nightshade by her mother Queen Maureen. Incubus kidnaps her brother & mortally wounds Maureen. Eve promises her, as Maureen uses the last of her energy to send her home, that she would someday return to save her brother.